Belarus 'unaware' of future CSTO leader’s candidacy

13:46 • 05.11.18

Belarus is not aware of any plans for appointing its country’s representative to the post of the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s (CSTO) secretary general, says a spokesperson for the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“There are no available reports as yet - about even the state from which the CSTO secretary general will be appointed – let alone the candidate,” Anatoly Glaz told Tert.am, dismissing the reports in the Russian media.

The newspaper Kommersant said in a recent article, citing its diplomatic sources, that Stanislav Zas, the secretary of the Belarusian National Security Council, is the most likely candidate to head the military alliance.

The position remained vacant after the former secretary general, Yuri Khachaturov, resigned amid the criminal probe into the March 2008 post-electoral events in Armenia. According to the Organization’s charter, his term in office was to expire in 2010, three years after his appointment. Khachaturov officiated for 1.5 year.